‘You toxic little queen’: Alec Baldwin’s history of anti-LGBTQ statements revisited

Alec Baldwin (Image: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore) July 2005

Baldwin is twice nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series — in 2005 and 2006 — for his work on Will & Grace. From Madonna to Woody Harrelson, cameos on the show were effectively a seal of approval of a public figure’s LGBTQ+ allyship at the time.

2008

Baldwin becomes an early adopter of the kind of hateful rhetoric that would proliferate years later, telling The Advocate: “The only thing about sexuality today that’s overwhelming to me is people who want to have sexual- reassignment surgery. It’s one thing to say, ‘I’m a guy, but I don’t like women,’ and another thing to say, ‘I’m a guy, and I want to be a woman.’ I’m like, wow. The transgendered thing totally blows

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